La Flamme Rouge **off topic discussion**

eeeee

eeeee wrote: »

Oh no Why?

Much slower to charge off the front on the typical office PC. More juice in the back ports.

keane2097

Looking at a Trek Madone 2019 at the moment. I'm 5'7 and the Trek site's sizing guide reckons I want a 54cm, which I think sounds a bit big for me.

Anyone around my size have experience with a recent H2 Trek in that size? Trying to figure out where I can go to try out the sizing.

tomasrojo

Dutch Bike Shop in Goatstown won't be renewing its lease. Will still retail online:
https://twitter.com/DutchBikeDublin/status/1212326566816047105

So, as it says, there'll be a sale of stock soon.

eeeee

Anyone unable to reject non functional cookies on chainreaction? No more chainreaction for me :mad: between that and using fastaway for delivery wiggle and chainreaction are off the table now boo!

LollipopJimmy

Today for the first time ever insaw a car get pulled over for skipping through the bus gate on bachelors walk, and in spend a lot of time sitting in the donut shop there..

eeeee

eeeee wrote: »

Anyone unable to reject non functional cookies on chainreaction? No more chainreaction for me :mad: between that and using fastaway for delivery wiggle and chainreaction are off the table now boo!

I work in the IT industry I block the **** out of a lot of stuff online and realise the futility of it at times, only 2 trackers on me as I type this but to worry about chainreaction ?????? They don't need your IP address they have your home address !!!! Even if you Onion up and vpn (some of them track and sell your data too) along with it you buy something unless it's with bitcoin etc. and even then they have you in a lot of cases if the will is there.

My attitude is I don't want to make it easy but resigned to the fact I have a foot print online companies make money off.

LollipopJimmy

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I work in the IT industry I block the **** out of a lot of stuff online and realise the futility of it at times, only 2 trackers on me as I type this but to worry about chainreaction ?????? They don't need your IP address they have your home address !!!! Even if you Onion up and vpn (some of them track and sell your data too) along with it you buy something unless it's with bitcoin etc. and even then they have you in a lot of cases if the will is there.

My attitude is I don't want to make it easy but resigned to the fact I have a foot print online companies make money off.

I've gone beyond caring, I've said it here before if online advertisers want to direct ****e at me that I'll ignore anyway then fire away. Also I dont use adblockers cos sites like this very site rely on ad revenue (well in the olden days of boards anyway)

LollipopJimmy

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

I've gone beyond caring, I've said it here before if online advertisers want to direct ****e at me that I'll ignore anyway then fire away. Also I dont use adblockers cos sites like this very site rely on ad revenue (well in the olden days of boards anyway)

I allow some for that reason but cyclingnews breaks when you block the ads which are the worst kind that are intrusive. Then look at how facebook with ad blocks and crap filters on it's 2/3's white space and has been for years now

eeeee

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I work in the IT industry I block the **** out of a lot of stuff online and realise the futility of it at times, only 2 trackers on me as I type this but to worry about chainreaction ?????? They don't need your IP address they have your home address !!!! Even if you Onion up and vpn (some of them track and sell your data too) along with it you buy something unless it's with bitcoin etc. and even then they have you in a lot of cases if the will is there.

My attitude is I don't want to make it easy but resigned to the fact I have a foot print online companies make money off.

Yep I tor and vpn, and if a website won't let me use it without allowing non essential cookies (and I begrudge the flip out of them!) I don't use it. Lots of American sites are inaccessible as a result, the Washington post is the most annoying loss so far.
And now Chainreaction. Which I only use to get the names of stuff and then buy on other sites cos of the fastaway thing. But is extra annoying cos as you say they have your deets anyway!
Grrr!

I know it's also mainly futile, but I will resist!

Wishbone Ash

Strobing wrote: »

Few groups in Clontarf today taking up the whole cycleway cycling two abreast and forcing oncoming cyclists to slow down significantly...

I experienced it today. Idiot in Clontarf CC gear with another rider on the wrong side of the track at the city end. He pointed to the grass to my left as I neared as if to say I should be riding there.

I'd have pointed back at him with a middle finger.

CramCycle

Message their club secretary about their behaviour, usually the quickest and simplest way to hopefully see an improvement in behaviour. Cyclists are far easier to ID than people think but this alone should hopefully sort the issue out.

manafana

CramCycle wrote: »

Message their club secretary about their behaviour, usually the quickest and simplest way to hopefully see an improvement in behaviour. Cyclists are far easier to ID than people think but this alone should hopefully sort the issue out.

its a few idiots, problem is the path gets narrow in parts and people don't change to single out, as suggested email the club, at least its easy to do something than a few randomers causing the issue.

Harrybelafonte

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

I experienced it today. Idiot in Clontarf CC gear with another rider on the wrong side of the track at the city end. He pointed to the grass to my left as I neared as if to say I should be riding there.

This is a constant on that route. It's why I stopped using it. They get testy really quickly if pulled up on it.

Weepsie

2 clubs regularly on the path. Them and Naomh Barrog. The latter are always courteous in my experience.

Their ones have a definite air if entitlement about them.

LollipopJimmy

Weepsie wrote: »

2 clubs regularly on the path. Them and Naomh Barrog. The latter are always courteous in my experience.

Their ones have a definite air if entitlement about them.

I use this route a lot, purely because I live more or less in the City Centre and it's 50kms on the nose if I head to Howth and do the hill twice. I've had cause to have words with Clontarf CC folk a few times, with Naomh Barrog I've only had pleasant chats.

The thing is about that cyclepath is that it's a greenway and should be treated as such, if you want to go for speed on that stretch you do it when it's quiet or go onto the road.

magicbastarder

Deleted User wrote: »

Even if you Onion up and vpn (some of them track and sell your data too)

worth a watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY

sure it all doesn't matter if the NSA have working quantum computers.

cdaly_

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Now that rings a bell. I have a vague memory of taking several left turns in a sort of a 'square' to get onto the N4 a few years ago.

It's not a nice square though. Fast traffic heading for the motorway getting annoyed by bloody cyclists in their way...

Eamonnator

Deleted User wrote: »

I work in the IT industry I block the **** out of a lot of stuff online and realise the futility of it at times, only 2 trackers on me as I type this but to worry about chainreaction ?????? They don't need your IP address they have your home address !!!! Even if you Onion up and vpn (some of them track and sell your data too) along with it you buy something unless it's with bitcoin etc. and even then they have you in a lot of cases if the will is there.

My attitude is I don't want to make it easy but resigned to the fact I have a foot print online companies make money off.

I'm pretty sure, I didn't understand any part of that post.
I gave up, when I walked past a restaurant lately and when I got home, I had a notification(?) asking if I had enjoyed my experience in the restaurant.

magicbastarder

turn location off on your phone unless you actually need it at the time.

Wishbone Ash

Eamonnator wrote: »

I'm pretty sure, I didn't understand any part of that post....

Likewise!

IP, Onion up and VPN? WTF?

LollipopJimmy

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Likewise!

IP, Onion up and VPN? WTF?

RobertFoster

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Likewise!

IP, Onion up and VPN? WTF?

IP = Internet Protocol - A series of numbers that identify a machine (and possibly its geographic location) connected to a network, be it a computer, phone, printer, server hosting a website, etc. e.g. Google = 172.217.7.3, my printer = 192.168.1.200

Onion up = Use Tor ("The Onion Router") to anonymise your browsing.

VPN = Virtual private network, another way to try and anonymise your browsing. Can be used to bypass regional restrictions, like watching BBC iPlayer outside the UK, by making your IP appear as if it's connecting from somewhere else.

LollipopJimmy

Sake, cycling kit got soaked this morning on the way in, the radiators here aren't working, waiting on an engineer and heating the office with those electric thingys so can't dry clothes. So I'll be cycling home in wet kit and then straight to boxing. So I'll have a wet hole while getting punched in the face

loyatemu

LollipopJimmy wrote: »

So I'll have a wet hole while getting punched in the face

some people would pay good money for that!

secman

Can be used to bypass regional restrictions, like watching BBC iPlayer outside the UK, by making your IP appear as if it's connecting from somewhere else.[/quote]

That sounds the biz, BBC iPlayer would be cool to have access too

LollipopJimmy

loyatemu wrote: »

some people would pay good money for that!

What to see it happen to me or to do it themselves :pac:

magicbastarder

Wind forecast for tomorrow sounds like it might be good for people cycling home from town to howth in the afternoon.

Seth Brundle

magicbastarder wrote: »

Wind forecast for tomorrow sounds like it might be good for people cycling home from town to howth in the afternoon.

I've no doubt that whatever direction I'm going in, the wind will be against me

Eamonnator

RobertFoster wrote: »

IP = Internet Protocol - A series of numbers that identify a machine (and possibly its geographic location) connected to a network, be it a computer, phone, printer, server hosting a website, etc. e.g. Google = 172.217.7.3, my printer = 192.168.1.200

Onion up = Use Tor ("The Onion Router") to anonymise your browsing.

VPN = Virtual private network, another way to try and anonymise your browsing. Can be used to bypass regional restrictions, like watching BBC iPlayer outside the UK, by making your IP appear as if it's connecting from somewhere else.

This is giving me a headache.

Edit:
Dear Jesus, I just googled Tor. I'm going to have to go for a little lie down and then go to bed.